Best Practices for Journalists– Source Protection and Anonymity for WhistleblowersIn political journalism, there’s a debate over allowing sources to talk to you off the record, in order to keep the access pipeline flowing. Anonymity and the ethics of it can also be complicated in situations beyond scoring political points.

– Technology Can Help Whistleblowers Communicate AnonymouslyThe ways that reporters and whistleblowers communicate is evolving. The introduction of secure communications has become necessary as journalists try to protect their sources, all the while trying to guarantee the information is secure.

Voices– Kathryn Foxhall: Good whistleblowing simply needs free speechDuring the last 25 years it’s become an accepted norm for government, business, nonprofits and other organizations to prohibit employees to ever communicate with journalists without notifying and being overseen by the authorities, often public information officers. The restrictions are intense, highly effective censorship. The Society of Professional Journalists has made opposing them a priority.

Joel Clement directed the Department of Interiors Office of Policy Analysis and assessed the impacts of climate change on Native Arctic communities. In June 2017, Clement and dozens of senior officials were involuntarily reassigned as part of a larger systematic effort within President Donald Trumps administration to marginalize employees whose work focuses on climate change and other environmental issues.
Get the full details of Joel's story, along with 24 other times whistleblowers changed history.

– Megan Wood: Reporting with PurposeMegan Wood talks about why she looked into San Diego Christian College’s missing $20 million in expenses and how whistleblowers make a difference in their communities.

– Richard Bowen: Blowing the Whistle on Defective MortgagesWhile evaluating $90 billion of mortgages Citigroup was buying from Countrywide and other lenders, former Citigroup vice president Richard Bowen tried to warn company leaders and board members about the rise in defective mortgages. In 2010 he testified before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Here, in Bowens words, is what happened next.